What was your favourite toy car?

junkyard

What was your favourite toy car as a child? I had a Matchbox garage that I used to play with all the time and I had a Polistil Rolls Royce that was another of my favourites. Did anyone else have similar ones?

overdriver

Corgi Lotus Esprit, with the pop-out submarine fins, and the aston DB6 that Bond had. Or was it a DB5?

Eric318

DB5 it was . Grey with the steel shield poping up at the back... I liked the Batmobile, shooting matches from the pipes at the back I also had a Le Mans Lola of some sort... was green I think and an orange Lambo Espada.

mike65

I had the DB5 as well which I ruined with yellow paint! My fav was a white police car which had a huge jet fighter style canopy.

Mike.

junkyard

What about some more pictures, if you think you know who made them i.e. Dinky, Corgi or Matchbox, just Google it under images and it will bring it up for you.

overdriver

Volvoboy

My fav was my dads Mercedes 300SEL '84 he used to let me play in it unsupervised i was about two our drive was on a slope i let the brake off and crashed side on with our neighbours datsun cherry.

Alfasudcrazy

My favourite toy brand was without doubt Tri-ang. It was my first introduction to brand loyalty and I even get a bit excited today just to see that famous red logo. The company shares a lot of the blame for me being such a car fanatic all my life. :rolleyes:
They made high quality, durable, and technically very interesting toys. I had a lorry with tipping trailer just like the white one in the picture and it literally kept me happy for years. I also had the little (actually they were quite large) milk truck as in the pictures in the Triang catalogue below. It was actually identical to the white one but just a different colour.:cool:

I also loved those tin friction engined cars. Usually they were replicas of the finest American cars of the time or at least of the past decade. Well who would buy a model of an Austin A30
They were sometimes made with fascinating attention to detail and of quite a large size too. Pity that in today’s health and safety conscious world such toys would never even make it to the production line.:rolleyes:

The later matchbox toy cars were interesting but never gave me the thrill of the tin cars of the 60’s.

junkyard

Tri-ang made quality stuff alright and is making big money on E-bay and Vectis auction sites. Great range of stuff from pedel cars to model cars. I love the tinplate stuff too but is was being phased out when I was a kid so getting one was a rare event, you could have more realistic crashes with tinplate stuff too and repair them which only added to the fun.They started me early on my panel beating career.:D

Motormouth

I had a VW Beetle driving school car. It had a steering wheel (which worked) on the roof and came with miniature traffic cones to set up a course!!!

Still have it, along with loads of others!!!

MercMad

I had the same Matchbox garage, although I either got it when I was very young and broke bits of it or I inherited it from somewhere !

I used to prefer the 1:43 scale Majorette cars as the detail was usually better and they had springy suspension !

The the larger cars I liked were Corgi's, usually liked the contemproary large cars of the day, Senator, Rover SD1, Sierra, E-Type, XJ6 and my favourite for many years was The Saint's XJS !!

I had some nice larger "model" cars too, like a 1/16th scale Mk1 Capri GXL facelift ! The detail was unreal. Built a modem of a 240Z and a beautiful Cheverolet Chevelle 454SS. As usual I used too much glue and messed it up a bit !

G Luxel

the first toy i remembered being bought for me was when i was 4 years of age and it was a Majorette Chrysler I80 with a boat on trailer. I lost the boat and trailer and then i lost the car, but i found it again, albeit in very chipped condition. I still have it, plus another 20 variations by the same company and I think I have another 20 to collect..........

MercMad

Wow the Chrysler 180 ! ! I had totally fogotten that car ! They always fascinated me since there were very few about and looked like a larger Aveneger...........mmmmmm google search coming up !

junkyard

Dinky Toys made a 1:43 scale Chrysler 180 too.

Alfasudcrazy

Neighbours had a Chrysler 180 back in the 70´s. It looked great but a bit fragile as there was always a plume of blue smoke coming out the back. :rolleyes:

mike65

They were quite the mid-exective wagon in the late 70s.

Mike.

mike65

Bump! warning to junkyard don't click links if easily upset!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/mike65/Dsc01251.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/mike65/Dsc01245.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/mike65/Dsc01248.jpg

Found these just now while looking for somethig else.

Pity about the AM! :eek:

Mike.

Squirrel

Alfasudcrazy wrote:

Pity that in today’s health and safety conscious world such toys would never even make it to the production line.:rolleyes:

Unfortunately I'm from that health and safety conscious time (bron in '89) so I missed out on loads of these. Wish I hadn't now

junkyard

I've got boxes of them like that too Mike, but I got some good ones too.:)

mike65

Those links are blank!

Mike.

tyney

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n157/tyney_photo/capri3.jpg

the only toy to survive into my adulthood was a scaelextric ford capri. I took the brush thingy off and used it as a toy car for years. When I was 17, I bought a '76 one which was on blocks in my da's garden for 10 years in various stages of disrepair. I eventually bought a '71 and made 1 good mk1 from the two of them. Of course the only thing that still survives is the ratty old toy. I'm convinced nature is working on a way to rust plastic, just to finish off all traces of ford from the seventies.
there's a pic of the capri. now that i've worked out how to post pics